NEW YORK (AP) - The Washington Capitals showed the urgency of a team that hasn't secured a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The New York Rangers haven't looked the same since they clinched their place in the postseason.
Alex Ovechkin scored twice and...

NEW YORK — Alex Ovechkin scored twice and Jason Chimera added two goals in the third period to rally the Washington Capitals to a 5-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday.Ovechkin had a goal in each of the first two periods, and Chimera broke a 2-2...

RALEIGH, N.C. — David Pastrnak scored on a nice centering pass from Carl Soderberg at 4:23 of overtime, giving the Boston Bruins a 2-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.The win put the Bruins three points ahead of Ottawa and four up on Florida in...

MINNEAPOLIS — A year after a 21-5 season wasn't enough to even earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament, Trinity College finds itself on the verge of its first national title.The Bantams' four-goal second-period barrage broke open a tie game en route to a 5-3...

FARGO, N.D. — Quinnipiac couldn't have drawn a much tougher assignment in the opening round of the NCAA Division I men's hockey tournament.After a flight halfway across the country and a three-hour bus ride to Scheels Arena, the Bobcats faced a North...

STORRS — Four UConn hockey players — captain Ryan Tyson, Brad Smith, Jacob Poe and Cody Sharib — were a little nervous in the early-morning hours of March 21. Their alarms rang at 6 a.m. and they were in the car by 6:15, about a half-hour before sunrise...

BOSTON (AP) — Ryan Getzlaf scored 3:09 into overtime to lift the Anaheim Ducks to a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.
Getzlaf, who also assisted on Corey Perry's tying goal late in the third period,...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) - Chris Kreider had two goals and an assist and the New York Rangers clinched a playoff spot with a 5-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
Dan Boyle, Mats Zuccarello and Tanner Glass also scored for the Rangers, who have...

HARTFORD — In the family freezer back in Anchorage, Alaska, there are 50 pounds of caribou and 50 pounds of salmon.Brandon Cole hunted the caribou. Ryan Cole hooked the fish. That's what the Cole brothers do when they're 4,500 miles, or an 80-hour...

MINNEAPOLIS — Employing a formula of stellar goaltending and opportunistic offense Trinity College won its first NCAA Division III hockey championship with a 5-2 win over Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Saturday night at the University of Minnesota's Ridder...

An early surge by the E.O. Smith/Tolland Bucks hockey team put them ahead quickly during a Division III Championship game against the Masuk Panthers at Yale's Ingalls Rink on March 21. Peter Mayer produced two goals for the Bucks, and his younger...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Danny Kristo's second goal of the game at 1:48 of overtime completed a Wolf Pack comeback from a two-goal deficit against the Springfield Falcons in a 3-2 Hartford win Saturday night at the MassMutual Center.
Kristo tied the game...

NEW HAVEN — The Yale hockey team, on the NCAA Tournament bubble at the time, took a crushing blow on March 15, when Harvard's Jimmy Vesey scored late in the second overtime of the decisive Game 3 in an ECAC Tournament quarterfinal series.The next...

Patrick Kirtland had his share of frustrations during his junior season, which was UConn's first in Hockey East, but didn't make any unnecessary noise. He's not someone who naturally captures the attention of those around him because he's got so much to...

UConn Beats Central 17-2The UConn baseball team (15-8) continued its hot hitting in a 17-2 victory at Central Connecticut (6-7) Wednesday afternoon. The Huskies have scored 35 runs in their last two games and are 9-2 in their past 11 games. UConn...

HAMDEN — Under 21-year coach Rand Pecknold, the Quinnipiac hockey team has climbed from Division II to Division I and used three conferences — the MAAC, Atlantic Hockey and now the ECAC — as staircases to the national stage.
The Bobcats' steady...

NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Stepan broke out of a long slump with two goals and an assist, and the New York Rangers caught the Western Conference-leading Anaheim Ducks atop the NHL standings with a 7-2 rout Sunday night.
Stepan, who had no points in his...

NEW HAVEN — It didn't take long for goalie Shane Kertanis to make his presence felt Saturday at Yale University.
Moments after he took the ice for the co-op team of Suffield, Granby and Windsor Locks, Kertanis turned to a packed student section and...